The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . nted work, and with sculptured heads inthe spandrils, which adorns the west front of thetower, is in some respects unique, and is certainlyunsurpassed in the richness of its details by any contemporary cathedral of St. Mngnus at Kirkwall, in the Orkneys, hasalready been referred to as an exceedingly interesting specimen oflate Romanesque work, commenced about the year 1136 ; so thatfrom the banks of the Tweed to these remote northern isles we iindthe Romanesque style universally adopted in the first years of thetwelfth century. One


The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . nted work, and with sculptured heads inthe spandrils, which adorns the west front of thetower, is in some respects unique, and is certainlyunsurpassed in the richness of its details by any contemporary cathedral of St. Mngnus at Kirkwall, in the Orkneys, hasalready been referred to as an exceedingly interesting specimen oflate Romanesque work, commenced about the year 1136 ; so thatfrom the banks of the Tweed to these remote northern isles we iindthe Romanesque style universally adopted in the first years of thetwelfth century. One curious and unique example of this period,however, must not be overlooked. The remarkable little church andtower of St. Rule, at St. Andrews, have excited scarcely less interestthan the round towers of Brechin and Abernethy, and have been thesubjects of equally vague speculations. The slender tower, measuringupwards of an hundred feet in height, by twenty feet eight inches inbreadth at base, while the choir is only thirty-one and a half feet long,^. * The dimensions of the choir of St. RulesChurch, as it now stands with the chanceldemolished, are, extreme length externallythirty-one feet eight inches, breadth twenty-five feet, breadth of chancel arch within theinner pillars nine feet, present height of thechancel arch, the base of the pillars beingcovered,twcnty-(iiiefeet four and tlHec-i| tcr inches, present height of external wallthirty feet. The windows are small, round-hradcd, and quite plain, with a deep internalsplay, and an external one of little more thanone-fourth of tlio whole thickness of the measure in the day-light, or place iorinserting the glass frame, six feet five incheshigh, and one foot eisrlit inches liroad. 612 THE CHRISTIAN PERloD. is well calculated to arrest the attention, though the edifice is, as awhole, more remarkable for its singular and perfectly unique featuresthan for the grace or consistency of its proportions. The remarkableexce


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